Hi! My name is Maria Paola Amezquita and I am a student at Colegio Nueva Granada who is very interested in reading. In reading good and controvertial books. This is a very personal space for all of us to express our feelings and our thoughts towards each topic that will be posted. Lets all let loose our imagination and write! Please if you definetly dont agree with what I've posted, dont hesitate on expressing your disagreements.
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After reading the first 15 pages of the novel I could not understand why wasn´t Maman´s son upset by the fact that she had died. In that moment I started thinking about the name of the novel "The Stanger", and the first thing that came up to my mind was relating the name with the character and his coldness towards Mamans death, in a way Maman seems like a stanger to him.
You need to post this. It lacks development. You should also have three.
"But, in the first place is not my fault if they buried Maman yesterday instead of today..." (p.19)
- Why would someone who has lost his mother even care about his job? It´s rediculus that someone would have to say to his boss, that he is "sorry" for missing a day or two at work, because someone close in his family has just died. Personally, I´d be completely destroyed if my mother died. But, at the same time and after reading chapter 2, I concluded that Merasault is maybe excaping from his reality.
In a way he may be acting indiferent towards the situation because inside it hurts so much, that he decides to cover up all that emotion and pretend that nothing is really happening. This is of course not healthy. But, I can personally tell you that it is a very easy way to protect yourself and escape. I say this, because I´ve had a personal expirience were something so shoking happened and my inmidiate reaction was staying away from everything and pretending nothing had happened, but the truth was otherwise, and at a point I had to confront my feelings and accept the truth. This is what I believe is going to happen to Merasault in the next chapters. He is going to understand that his mother is gone and that he misses her alot!
I agree with your thoughts on Meursault's reaction, I had the same reaction when I first began to read the novel. The quote you chose was a good way to express what you thought!
After reading chapter 5, I realized that Salamano although was tuff with his dog and cursed him every single time, he loved him and he indeed misses his company. It is hard to think about it, but theres many realtionships were people simply don´t get along but they manage to stay together because they need each other and complement each others life. "We´d have a run-in every now and then. Buthe was a good dogjust the same." (p.45)
A month ago I lost a friend, who was really close to me when I was smaller. Together we talked about everything, he supported me, and he was always there for me. As time went on we changed and things in our relationship got cold. We stopped talking as often as we did and I never realized how hard it would be to lose him. When I found out about the accident I couldn´t believe that it was true. I definetly regret not spending more time with him. If I could go back in time I would have changed many things, but now that nothing can be done Its hard to ´confront reality. It is hard to understand why we need to have hard expiriences to realize and give thanks for what we´ve got. This is something that in the novel is happening to Saramago and I think that will happen to Merasault, when he realizes that his mom is gone.
Wow!!!!Fianlly something different has happened in the novel. After reading chapter 6, the story changes drastically. I would have never expected that Meursault would have had the guts to pull the trigger and kill the Arab guy.
This is very peculiar and interesting at the same time, because it would be very naive to think that it was something that just appeared. With this I mean that Camus definetly planned to write the novel in a plain way, with lots of details, but having very little important aspects to them, so that when he decided to post such an event, the reader would react in amazement.
Now I start to understand the meaning of the book and what Camus is trying to do by amazing us with such abrupt events. Since chapter 2 I wanted something like this to happen in the novel, because I was starting to get bored by the fact that nothing changed. This is definetly the climax of the novel, and I have to say, WHAT A GREAT CLIMAX!!!
Camus was filling the story with monotonous events so that as readers we would get distracted and apart our thoughts from expecting such remarkable events.
Try thinking about the ideas of the novel, not so much whether it's boring or not. Frankly, it's not interesting. What's strange about this? Also, your reading without much interpreting. Try responding the the text at a deeper level. You may be surprised with what you find.
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